Matthew Yglesias

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Message discipline is good but it’s hard to enforce movement-wide message discipline. Twitter volunteered to do it for American conservatives, leaving all the right’s best commentators in place while draining much of the fever swamp without explicit intra-coalition fighting. — PolitiTweet.org

Matthew Yglesias @mattyglesias

Absolutely — but note that happiness scaling linearly with the *log* of income means there are large gains from redistribution. — PolitiTweet.org